Sceptical Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a… — Ian Macfarlane
If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists with wonder. If… — Rajneesh
Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do… — Brian Donohoe
I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's… — Frederick Forsyth
I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so… — Christopher Nolan
It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this… — Benjamin McKenzie
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and… — William Dunbar
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my… — Edmund Gosse
A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young… — Arthur Helps
Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept… — Michael Specter
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. — Gavin Bryars
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you… — James Randi
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add,… — John Maynard Keynes
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world. — John Bercow
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is… — Joseph Stiglitz
If you didnâ€™t believe it before â€” and itâ€™s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point â€” if you didnâ€™t… — David Letterman
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude. — William Beveridge
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt,… — George Steiner

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